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Fake news reaches less people online than most assume, according to a new factsheet published Thursday by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

In one of the first quantifications of fake news in Europe, the authors found that, in France and Italy, users generally spend less time on selected fake news websites than they do on those of genuine media outlets.

Newsrooms around the world are experimenting with virtual reality more and more, but mass adoption of the medium has been slowed by the lack of quality content and an industry-wide inability to make money from it.

That's the gist of a new report, released this evening by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, that tracks adoption of and experimentation with virtual reality at major legacy news organizations around the world, including The New York Times, the USA Today Network, Die Welt and The Guardian.